by Honor James
“And I’m glad that you didn’t push,” she admitted quietly. “I’m glad that you didn’t push because it might have sent me running the other way. I’m not saying that it would have, but more than likely it would have. But I have the two of you now. I have you both in my life for now until forever, and that’s a very good thing.”
“It is a very good thing.” He smiled and rubbed his nose to hers. “The water just shut off. He’ll be looking for us soon. Let me show you to the master suite. I so want to see your expression when you get a look at it. This is all Byrne’s baby, just so you know. He had a very set plan in his mind and he would not be deterred no matter what the contractor and designer told him. He said, and I quote, ‘It has to be fucking perfect for our mate, so do it my way or I’ll find someone that will do it right.’ Very determined.” He chuckled. He was leading her through the halls toward a set of double doors, one slightly open. “Go ahead.” He waved a hand to the doors.
Briar just grinned and walked into the room. She stopped, literally stopped in her tracks. Even her breath stopped, expelling from her lungs in a deep and fast rush. “Oh my God,” she whispered when she finally gasped in a breath of air. “How?” She moved into the wide-open space, a space with one entire wall of nothing but glass, and walked to it. On the way she was distracted by the bed. The bed was massive, hand carved if she wasn’t mistaken, and it had their names all entwined in a love knot. Tears of happiness flooded her. “How could he have known what my dream bedroom was? What I needed?”
“Because I know you,” the man in question said behind her. When she looked his way he shrugged and walked closer, his hands in his pockets. “I know you, Briar. I’ve always known you in my heart. I went with my gut and all the information I’d gathered on my many stakeouts of your office and the morgue.”
Briar looked to Byrne and smiled. It was a watery smile but it was a happy smile. “I don’t know what I ever did to deserve you, but I’m happy that I did it. I’m so very happy to have you as mine. To know that you care that much about me that you’ve watched me, kept watch over me, protected me and gave me all that I needed even when I didn’t realize it.” She walked to him and simply wrapped her arms around him. The heat of the man surrounded her when he wrapped his arms around her as well. “Thank you. For everything. For being mine.”
“I was always yours, Briar. You just had to accept it,” he said quietly. With a squeeze, he drew her to him tighter and she felt him brush a kiss to her hair. “Come, your bath will get cold if we stand out here gabbing the night away.”
With a nod, Briar allowed Byrne to lead her out of the bedroom and into the bathroom, another room that looked as if it had been plucked from her dreams. The marble flooring was heated, and the large bathing pool had a triple rainfall showerhead that came from the ceiling to fill it. The bathroom was truly incredible, but nothing could beat the men at her sides.
“Naked,” Byrne ordered, his voice going a little gruff as he raked a hot look over her. “Quickly, too, if you would, little mate. Then we can get you warmed up properly and into our very large bed. You did notice the very large bed out there, didn’t you?”
Snorting, Danel eased the door shut enough to trap the heat in the room. “NASA called and said to move that thing. It’s blocking their view of half of the universe.”
Briar just giggled. “Only you two could make me laugh when I was feeling so numb. Thank you.” They had made her feel again, and that was an amazing gift to her. It was incredible to know just how much they loved her, to feel how much without them even touching her.
“Wasn’t meant to make you laugh.” She saw the truth in his eyes even with his serious face. “It’s the truth. They are saying they’ll damn well fine us for the blockage. And, dude, the number they rattled off over the phone, fucking thing will fund NASA for another four hundred damn years!”
Snorting, Byrne just shook his head. “Ignore him. I think he’s off his meds again. Did you want to tie up your hair, love?”
“Yes please.” She hated that she was depending so much upon these men, but she had to in order to pull her shit back together again. “I swear I am not typically so high maintenance. I really am not. I just can’t seem to breathe right now.” It was over, it was finally all over and they could live their lives without the pall of her past casting a shadow over their lives. She couldn’t be happy, not yet anyway, because she had taken a life.
Danel stepped in close and wrapped his arms around her from behind. “We know, Briar. But we are your mates and we welcome you to lean on us when you need to. Just as I’m sure you would expect us to lean on you should we need to, right?”
“I know. And I do lean on you both.” She had found that she could lean on them and now she did so. Often. “I’m blessed to have you both here in my life. To know that you will both do anything at all that it will take in order to make sure I’m happy as well as the two of you.” She looked back at Danel and nodded. “I just need to get over this last hurdle and then we will be good, right?”
“You’re already most of the way there, love.” He smiled down at her. Pressing a kiss to her temple, he moved his hands to take the tie for her hair from Byrne. “Tell me if I hurt you, all right?” he asked, gathering her hair up. He finger-combed it up and then did some twist thing and tied it all off. He let loose and…it stayed, amazingly enough. “Not exactly the do for a night out on the town but it should hold for a bath.”
“That’s all I need it for,” she assured him with a smile. “Just need to be able to get my bath taken and then crawl into bed with the two best mates on the planet.” Briar smiled and nodded. “I know I am,” she whispered to Danel about his earlier statement. “I just need more time. That’s what you are giving me.”
“And we will keep giving you as much as you need,” Byrne said. Then he waved a hand at her. “Why are you not naked? I am pretty damned sure I told you that you needed to get naked, woman. Very hard to bathe with all those clothes on. They tend to drag and weigh you down. Plus, it’s very hard to make love to you with all that in the way.”
“Well, I didn’t know we would be doing that,” Briar teased with a smile, something they gave her so easily, smiles. “And all I need is for someone to undo the back of this shirt and I can pull it off.” She loved the shirt, but it zipped from the side to the top of her neck and was hard for her to undo herself.
“I’ve got it,” Danel told her. He undid the zipper for her and then stepped back to let her strip. Byrne was already stripping down in front of her even as Danel began to strip behind her just in her peripheral. And she was slightly distracted for a moment, but only a moment as she remembered why they wanted her naked. Beyond the bath, of course.
Looking back at her men, it took her many more moments to remember that she wanted to be clean, needed to be clean. Finally, however, she seemed to pull herself together and stepped into the tub with their support. That was the thing with her mates. Their support. She knew it would be hers. Always. Forevermore.
Chapter Sixteen
“She’s resisting.” Byrne’s voice reached her, sounding very amused.
“So I can see,” Danel said. “I think we need to be more convincing in waking her up.”
“You have a plan I’m assuming.” Byrne again.
“Of course, follow my lead,” Danel said.
Wondering what they were up to, Briar kept her eyes closed and feigned sleep. There was some movement of the bed as they rearranged themselves and then…Holy mother of God!
A mouth latched onto her pussy without any warning and started to suck. After last night, first the sex in the tub and then the three times in bed before they’d let her pass out, she shouldn’t be so needy so fast. Her body just hadn’t gotten the memo and went from zero to horny damned fast.
Briar’s eyes popped open quickly and she gasped aloud. “Oh Gods,” she moaned with a sob of pure pleasure. “That feels. Amazing.” She whimpered now, her hands fisted in her hair and her head
thrashing from side to side. “I want more,” she told them simply. “Please,” she begged.
Danel chuckled really close to her and grinned when she shot him a look. Byrne was down between her legs, sucking, nipping, and driving her fucking insane. Danel reached out and lazily drew the back of his nail over her tight nipples, causing them to start to throb in time with her pending orgasm. “Good morning, love,” he said, leaning in to kiss her gently.
Briar just grinned. “Good morning, Danel.” She moaned. “I think that I need Byrne’s cock in my mouth. I want to pleasure one of you while you are pleasuring me.” Lifting her ass up even more, she wanted more. Needed more.
“Well, I think he’s a little busy and doesn’t look ready to move. But, hey.” He grinned at her. “I have a cock you could suck on if you want. It’s just down there, all lonely and needy. Or I could figure out how to tear the Luhpyne away from his meal.” Those words had a deep growl coming from the area of her pussy, one that had her clenching in need.
That had her moaning, the growl. “No, need you, Danel,” she whimpered and reached out for him. “I need to suck your cock. I need to taste you, to feel you. I need so desperately to feel you pumping your cock in and out of my mouth until you come, and then I need to feel your seed sliding down my throat.”
“Holy hell, woman, where the fuck did you get such a dirty little vocabulary?” he asked, staring at her in shock. Taking her hand, he lifted it to his mouth and nibbled on her fingers. “How do you want me? Lying next to you, or should I straddle your shoulders and slide my cock between your sexy lips that way?”
“Straddling my shoulders. I want you to fuck my titties, too. Slide your glorious cock in and out of my boobs so I can lick and suck the head as well.” She moaned. She had been doing a lot of reading and watching videos that would help her in telling her mates exactly what she wanted, when she wanted it.
“Holy hell, woman,” he groaned. But he was moving, throwing a leg over her and settling his cock between her breasts. “I think you need to grab onto those beautiful breasts and play with your nipples while I fuck your boobs.”
Briar just grinned and put her hands on both of her breasts. She pinched her nipples while watching him. “Start to fuck my boobs. I want to lick and taste every taste of you as you slide in and out from between my breasts. Please,” she whimpered.
“Fucking hell.” He practically whimpered himself. He reached out blindly and came back with a bottle of lube. “I don’t want to hurt you, or myself, so let’s lube up my cock a little for an easier ride.” He squirted some of the cold gel on them both and gave a shudder with a low mutter before tossing the bottle aside. Then he began to glide his cock between her breasts slowly, and he groaned.
Briar licked the head of his cock and grinned. “Strawberry lube, love it.” She then greedily began to move with him, lifting her head and pulling a pillow under it so that she could get more and more of his cock into her mouth while he fucked her breasts.
He stared down at her as he thrust, his eyes intensely gazing at hers. “Fucking hot, babe. I love watching you playing with your breasts as I fuck them with my cock.”
Down between her legs, Byrne was pushing a finger and then a second one into her pussy. His mouth was sucking on her clit, his teeth occasionally giving it a little tug before flicking it with his tongue.
Briar arched her neck and gasped, squeezing her nipples as she did so. “Gods that feels so good.” She moaned. “Byrne is killing me. In such an amazing way though,” she whimpered. She loved it. She loved the feelings of these men as they both ruled her body.
“It’s about to get even better,” Danel warned.
She wondered why for a moment as Byrne’s mouth and fingers left her wanting. Then she felt his cock fill her up and his fingers on her clit. “So fucking tight,” Byrne growled out. His voice sounded seriously rough and so damned sexy as he began to fuck her, hard and fast, moving one of her legs up to rest the ankle on his shoulder.
Briar sobbed in pleasure. “Hell yes.” She moaned and pushed as best she could against Byrne and then began to go with Danel as best as she could. “Please Byrne, more,” she begged softly. “Danel, I want to suck you more.”
Danel lifted up, moving his cock from between her breasts and pressing it to her lips. “Open up and suck me,” he ordered. Bracing a hand on the headboard, he began to thrust into her mouth. Shallow strokes, but enough that she was definitely happier.
She did just that. Opening her mouth, she trusted him to thrust in and out of her. It was killing her the way that both men seemed to be moving in such a way that she was always filled with a cock. Either Byrne’s in her pussy or Danel’s in her mouth. She loved it. So much.
Byrne adjusted her leg, pressing her open more to take more of his cock. He put his fingers on her clit, tugging and pinching as he rolled it around. Danel thrust a little deeper, his eyes at half mast and his mouth open a little as he panted, clearly turned-on at the view of his cock sliding in and out of her mouth.
Briar let her teeth lightly scrape over Danel’s cock and took all that he wanted to give her and needed even more. Reaching up with one hand, she began to play with the base of his cock. She began to tease him with her other hand, scraping her nails down his chest and then circling his nipples.
His thrusts were a little jerky, a shudder working through his body as she watched the struggle on his face. “Briar,” he said, clearly a warning. “You’re killing me here, babe. I’m trying not to hurt you, but you keep that up and, fuck, I don’t know what will happen, love.”
“Not going to hurt me. You would never hurt me. Fuck me,” she demanded of her mate. She wanted, needed for them both to just simply let go again. “Both of you. Fuck me, damn you. Harder, faster, give me everything.” She wasn’t afraid of them, at all. It was odd but it was like she was reclaiming herself in this moment with her mates.
He nodded after a long moment and then stared at her. “Open your mouth wide, so I can fuck you deep and hard,” he ordered. Byrne seemed to get the memo as well because he rearranged her legs in a way that he was practically fucking her womb with how deep he was penetrating her. And what he was doing to her clit with his fingers…That thought trailed off as Danel slid his cock in deeper, bumping into the back of her throat before withdrawing.
She opened her mouth as much as she possibly could and readily accepted what they both gave her. This was what she needed. This was the healing that she had to have. Both of them turning loose, both of them giving her absolutely everything. She knew in that moment she was always in control in their loving, and that was just exactly what she needed and wanted.
Byrne pinched her clit and tugged. At the same time he pushed a finger into her ass and stroked her while Danel began to fuck her mouth faster. He kept the movement the same, driving in just enough to bump her throat but not so much that he choked her.
She wasn’t going to last and she knew it. She lifted her ass up more for Byrne and opened wider for Danel, arching the back of her neck so that he could go deeper and deeper. A low growl escaped her and her nails bit into Danel’s chest, telling him she wanted and needed so very much more.
Panting hard, he thrust into her deeper, his eyes locked on hers, watching her she knew for any signs of distress. They worried about her so much and she loved it. He let out a groan a few minutes later. “Fuck, not going to last, I’m coming, Briar.”
Briar closed her lips around Danel’s cock, telling him without words that she wanted him to spill deep down her throat. She wanted and needed for him to give it all up for her and only her. She moaned and sucked harder on him, demanding everything.
Moving a hand to her hair, he stroked the strands before pushing his fingers in to hold her still. Thrusting down, he shuddered and came, throwing his head back as he yelled her name. His semen spilled down her throat in long splashes.
Byrne was fucking her faster, two fingers in her ass and pressing in a way that made his cock rub right where she nee
ded him to be. His other fingers were tapping out a rhythm on her swollen clit, creating little vibrations through her pussy.
Briar’s eyes rolled back. She was coming so very hard that she was certain that she was hurting Byrne with how tightly she was squeezing him with her inner pussy muscles. She sucked Danel harder and drank back all that he gave her.
Byrne jerked, pushing deeper a couple more times before he stilled. His shout filled the room as she felt his seed filling her, his body a taut, vibrating entity between her legs. Then they all seemed to relax, the energy sapped from them.
With a groan, Danel pulled his cock from her mouth slowly, wincing slightly before he fell to the side and collapsed as he gulped down air. “Holy fuck,” he muttered in a breathless way.
Byrne leaned forward, hands braced on the bed as her pussy continued to milk everything he had to give. His head was down but she could see him sucking in air, too, his chest expanding and contracting quickly.
Briar was gasping but a smile was firmly on her lips. “Amazing. I so think that we should do that often,” she told them both quietly and then yawned. “I think I need a nap, but then I totally think we should do that all over again. Many, many times in different ways.”
Chuckling, Byrne pulled out of her and collapsed on her other side. “A short nap, love. We have to go meet with the parents today, if you remember.” Shit, right, that. They’d been on leave after the incident, and her mates had made arrangements to take her to go and meet their families. Both families would be in one place, on this side of the Veil, and in a place that Briar was comfortable being in.
“Crap on a cracker,” she muttered. “Okay.” She sighed but nodded. “Okay. Small nap and then we will get up and shower, and we will go visit your families. I look forward to meeting them.” She nodded and snuggled closer to her mates. “I look forward to meeting them, but you are not to leave me alone. Please.”
